Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss: 1940 Type. Joe Pew, vice president of the $146,431,484 Sun Oil Co., the latest in the line of Pennsylvania bosses, is unlike these political ancestors in every respect but one: he too thinks the salvation of the U. S. is bound up with the Republican Party. (It is no contradiction in fact that he would accept, and be happy under, John Nance Garner as President.) Like his predecessors, Joe Pew is spending pots of money to bring about a G. O. P. victory. Unlike them, he spends his own money. Since 1934 Joe Pew and his immediate...
...Governor of Michigan appointed solid, able Mr. Ferguson a circuit judge. In his judicial routine Homer Ferguson won the respect of lawyers and colleagues alike. There he was doing his quiet job, when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
...prizefight business. Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough Irish neighbors. By the time he was 16. he commanded so much respect that he managed two neighborhood pugs. Dave and Willie Astey...
What Historian Adams fails to supply with respect to the last decade, onetime Manchester Guardian Correspondent Muggeridge heaps up with a highly artistic trowel. As a documentation of that decade, The Sun Never Sets is almost feverishly brilliant, almost invariably malicious, a story more rewarding, more exhausting and giving an impression of being less dependable than Frederick Lewis Allen's similar job for the U. S., Since Yesterday (TIME...
...important change has been made in respect to the Varsity's game with Dartmouth this Saturday. Because of bad weather in the Indian territory the match will be played here on the same date...